The Montreal Canadiens were rumoured to be in the market for a center since the beginning of the season. Now that Alex Galchenyuk and David Desharnais are going to be out for six to eight weeks, it is imperative that the Habs land a center soon.
One name that immediately jumped into the rumour mill today was Alex Burmistrov of the Winnipeg Jets. Elliotte Friedman threw the name out there in his 30 Thoughts column as “purely conjecture.”
Burmistrov to the Habs makes sense as far as numbers go. The Jets have a lot of good centers, the Canadiens might have to use Kirk Muller as a third line center soon.